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Edvard Munch - love and angst / edited by Giulia Bartrum.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : London : Thames and Hudson ; The British Museum, 2019Manufacturer: Italy : Printer Trento SrL Copyright date: ©2019Description: 223 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 x 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 050048046X
  • 9780500480465
Other title:
  • Love and angst
Contained works:
  • Munch, Edvard, 1863-1944. Works. Selections
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction : Edvard Munch and the United Kingdom / Giulia Bartrum -- Transfigured continent : Impressions from Munch's Europe / Charles Emmerson -- The inner soul of an artist : Munch's background and the development of his Frieze of Life / Giulia Bartrum -- Mund and the world of printmaking / Giulia Bartrum -- Munch and the theatre in Paris / Stephen Coppel -- 'Is art influenced by too much business?' : Cultural capital and the market for Munch / Frances Carey -- Plates, stones and blocks : Munch's printing matrices / Ute Kuhlemann Falck -- Reflections on Edvard Munch : An interview with Karl Ove Knausgaard.
Summary: Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is best known today as a painter, but his reputation was in fact established through his prints, which were central to his creative process. His printmaking was experimental and innovative, and he continually revisited the subjects of his paintings in striking prints, in which he evoked a wide range of emotion and mood through the use of varied techniques.0 Munch's early life in the industrial town of Kristiania (renamed Oslo in 1925) was marked by sickness and poverty. His first works centred on the expression of deep emotional experiences, specifically the deaths of his mother and teenage sister when he was growing up, as well as passionate yet unhappy love affairs of which his deeply religious father disapproved. Encouraged by his encounters with a Bohemian society of artists, writers and poets, he developed a visual landscape that was a radical deviation from the slick society portraits and grand Scandinavian landscapes then so much in vogue. His efforts attracted considerable attention and much criticism, and he practised with little financial success as a painter for ten years before he started to gain his reputation as a profoundly innovative printmaker. Written by a team of acknowledged experts, and with an interview by writer Karl Ove Knausgaard, this book will shed new light on the production of some of Munch's most remarkable works.
List(s) this item appears in: Celebrating Norway and Syttende Mai
Holdings
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 759.81 E24 Available 33111009720307
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Edvard Munch (1863-1944), one of the most famous expressionist artists, is best known for The Scream. However, this was just one of the many haunting depictions of raw human emotion, which he fully developed in highly sophisticated prints.

Munch's youth was marked by sickness and poverty, and his early works centered around the expression of deep emotional experiences, specifically the deaths of his mother and teenage sister, as well as passionate yet unhappy love affairs of which his deeply religious father disapproved. Experimental and innovative, the style that Munch developed was a radical deviation from the nature of the society portraits and grand Scandinavian landscapes then in vogue. Continually revisiting the subjects of his paintings, Munch evoked a wide range of emotion and mood in his prints and strikingly large lithographs, partly by using an innovative jigsaw technique in his woodcuts that produced a wide variety of color and tone.

Featuring an interview with Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard, Edvard Munch: love and angst, published 75 years after the artist's death, will shed light on the imagery and production of some of Munch's most intriguing, often overlooked prints.

"This publication accompanies the exhibition Edvard Munch: love and angst at the British Museum from 11 April to 21 July 2019."--Title page verso.

"In collaboration with the Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Edvard Munch and the United Kingdom / Giulia Bartrum -- Transfigured continent : Impressions from Munch's Europe / Charles Emmerson -- The inner soul of an artist : Munch's background and the development of his Frieze of Life / Giulia Bartrum -- Mund and the world of printmaking / Giulia Bartrum -- Munch and the theatre in Paris / Stephen Coppel -- 'Is art influenced by too much business?' : Cultural capital and the market for Munch / Frances Carey -- Plates, stones and blocks : Munch's printing matrices / Ute Kuhlemann Falck -- Reflections on Edvard Munch : An interview with Karl Ove Knausgaard.

Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is best known today as a painter, but his reputation was in fact established through his prints, which were central to his creative process. His printmaking was experimental and innovative, and he continually revisited the subjects of his paintings in striking prints, in which he evoked a wide range of emotion and mood through the use of varied techniques.0 Munch's early life in the industrial town of Kristiania (renamed Oslo in 1925) was marked by sickness and poverty. His first works centred on the expression of deep emotional experiences, specifically the deaths of his mother and teenage sister when he was growing up, as well as passionate yet unhappy love affairs of which his deeply religious father disapproved. Encouraged by his encounters with a Bohemian society of artists, writers and poets, he developed a visual landscape that was a radical deviation from the slick society portraits and grand Scandinavian landscapes then so much in vogue. His efforts attracted considerable attention and much criticism, and he practised with little financial success as a painter for ten years before he started to gain his reputation as a profoundly innovative printmaker. Written by a team of acknowledged experts, and with an interview by writer Karl Ove Knausgaard, this book will shed new light on the production of some of Munch's most remarkable works.

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